For preparation of Twenty20 World Championship in West Indies, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) are arrange to launch the for firsttime National Cricket League T20 competition from April 11 to 20, 2010.

A deal with ATN Records has been signed by BCB to take care of the marketing side of the venture.

The six divisional teams will be taken by Six franchises. It is known that some corporate have already shown their interest to have the franchises.

"I hope we can inform about the franchises on March 29. The prize money will be US$100,000 for the champions while the runners-up team will receive US$50,000 and there will also be other lucrative prizes," said Rubaba

"There would be no auction for the first tournament but we will try to bring the divisional teams under franchises for the longer-version tournament from next season. Salary would be restricted for this first tournament and the players will be financially benefited," said Mahbubul Anam

"We hope this single-league tournament will help our national players to prepare for the T20 World Cup," he added.

"If we want to participate in the Champions League T20 then there is no alternative other than introduce this kind of tournaments in the domestic calendar. We suspended the national cricket league one-day competition because of time constraint and we thought that it would be helpful for us if we play T20 cricket ahead of the World Cup," said Ashraf.

One team can field two in a match however, register six foreign players.